Couple more pics...

Gabriel Wayne Jones (Gabe or Peanut one of the two...)

Okay, here are some quick picks. The basic story is that it was a long labor, short delivery. Mama and baby are doing GREAT! We are home now. I would have blogged sooner but the hospital is way out of date and doesn't have a wireless connection, what's up with that!?

I have to say that the fourth one was just as amazing as the first one. Being a dad is great stuff.

The best in people

Okay, if you haven't seen this video before, get a kleenex.

This came from my good friend at Medtronic.

Ada boy Steve! He was the same one who sent me the flaming saltwater and the handpuppets. Good thing Steve doesn't have a blog, I would just be linking to his. :)

Contracting...

Okay, Hunter and Jacob don't go to school until 11am. So before they leave for school in the morning both of them have a whiteboard with a list of chores that need to be done. If you don't finish all of your chores for the morning, you have to finish them in the afternoon AND first offense you get fined 75 cents. If you have back to back offenses it's 1.50 and you have additional chores in the afternoon to complete. We're slave drivers I know. All of this stems from the kids just sitting around in the morning and Brandi having to get all over them just to get the basics done.

Anyway, so yesterday they get in the car and start out for school and Jacob says that he did four of Hunters chores because Hunter said that he would pay him $2. Hunter then says that he's not going to pay because Jacob didn't find his socks (one of the four negotiated tasks). Evidently not squealing on Hunter wasn't part of the deal.

So when I got home the contractor had to pay his sub-con $1.25 for his partial completion of the chores and the contractor got docked his entire week's allowance for pawning off his chores on his brother. He'll also get extra weekend chores to make up for the ones he failed to complete himself.

Good grief. I don't remember ever doing anything like that when I was a kid. So am I wrong here? Should I reward the delegation as long as it's a fair deal and the sub-con gets paid. Our take was this is an example of laziness that we are trying to purge.

Of course Daddy just started contracting out the yard work... maybe I'll back off on the extra chores this weekend...

Any help here?

Book Reports from Hunter

Hi my name is Hunter. These are my books.I read these books in two days .Oh maybe not two days. Well I guess that is not a problem at all. The one on the right is an ancient Greece story and there is Pegasus the flying horse. Annie was caught but the ancient book saved them. Annie was caught because there were no girls allowed in the Olympic Games, but she borrowed a costume from the outdoor theater and dressed up as a knight. She sat down and said, "Go, go, go!" They found out she was a girl because of her pony tail.

Annie and Jack were almost hit by a bunch of furniture but they made it to the magic tree house just in time. When the Titanic sank many people died. Annie and Jack heard from the book that many people died on the third floor, so they came down from the deck and saved the people who were on the third floor.

They are great books, but you should definitely read them to find out everything that happened.

The end. Bye!